Tarachodes pilosipes Rehn, 1912

Svenson, Gavin J., 2014, The type material of Mantodea (praying mantises) deposited in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA, ZooKeys 433, pp. 31-75 : 65

Taxon classification Animalia Mantodea Tarachodidae

Tarachodes pilosipes Rehn, 1912

Tarachodes pilosipes : Rehn 1912: 453-455; Giglio-Tos 1927: 88 [Junior SYN of Tarachodes insidiator Wood-Mason, 1882]; Kaltenbach 1996: 311; Ehrmann 2002: 341 [SYN]; Otte and Spearman 2005: 355 [NON-SYN].

Type.

Holotype Male (Fig. 17 A–C; USNM ENT 00873966). The male specimen was referred to as the “Type” by Rehn (1904) and under Article 73.1.1 of the Code this sole name-bearing male specimen is the holotype.

Holotype labels.

Luebo Congo - D. W. Snyder / Tarachodes - pilosipes - Type Rehn / Type - No. - U.S.N.M. [Cat. No. 14602, U.S.N.M.; referenced in the original description]

Measurements.

Body length 42.79; forewing length 31.60; hindwing length 26.62; pronotum length 9.60; prozone length 3.19; pronotum width 5.12; pronotum narrow width 4.28; head width 7.13; head vertex to clypeus 3.50; frons width 2.92; frons height 1.57; prothoracic femur length 8.86; mesothoracic femur length 6.32; mesothoracic tibia length 5.39; mesothoracic tarsus length 4.70; metathoracic femur length 7.35; metathoracic tibia length 7.05; metathoracic tarsus length 5.39; discoidal femoral spines R4/L4; anteroventral femoral spine count R13/L12; posteroventral femoral spine count R4; anteroventral tibial spine count R14/L14; posteroventral tibial spine count R15/L14.